Adepts

[Rorne]

I took a break from the game for a while and when I came back I noticed that adepts below 50 went from barely ever being killed to.. not being killed from what I can see. I mean I may be wrong, I'm not exactly camping them out 24 hours a day but it would also make sense with the smaller amount of lower level players. Another problem seems to be with buyables these days there just doesn't seem to be the same kind of draw for the loot off some of these. It's sort of sad to see these kind of Adepts up in zones just sitting untouched all the time. I was wondering if there were any plans to perhaps scale the loot to the current economy ( a slippery slope, I know) or perhaps review the difficulty versus the rewards in the encounter.

 

[robopirateninja]

I think the staff is looking more to fix the economy than to boost adept loot. One of the reasons adepts aren't really "worth it" aside from the fun factor of killing them and a few irreplaceables like the digested hexdoll is that people can buy gear from 65 xp zones at a greatly reduced price due to market flooding. The only way to make adept loot universally desired instead would be to make the adept loots better than drops in those 65 xp zones; probably not a good idea.

 

[Renshu]

The only way to make adept loot universally desired instead would be to make the adept loots better than drops in those 65 xp zones; probably not a good idea.

Or, the loots from 65 exp zones could have rec/req lvl.

 

[Minerios]

I don't know if it happened before your break or not, but adepts have also been retuned so that they can all be killed with two groups, and many can be with 6-8 players (even sometimes less).

 

[Rorne]

I don't know if it happened before your break or not, but adepts have also been retuned so that they can all be killed with two groups, and many can be with 6-8 players (even sometimes less).

I am pretty sure it was that way before I left but even so finding one group post 50 that all fall in to the required level range could be an immense hassle let alone two.

I agree with the level requirements though, as far as the market being flooded I am sure they knew this would happen with all the level 65 zone droppable loot.

 

[Ciaran]

I still think adept loot is pretty awesome, unless there have been changes to what they drop I have a couple pieces from when they first came in that I don't doubt I'll be using until at least well into my fifties... take a look on Ciaran's Fomelo at the Windfeather Pantaloons and Whatever his helm item is. Of course if you -want- to pay to outfit your lowbie character with lvl 65 area gear that's great but with just a little patience and effort the adepts are not that difficult to take down. I got lucky with both of the rolls and things don't always drop like you want but the adepts are good practice for the raid game later on as well. Personally I still think people are either just too lazy to both with the adepts or don't know about them and both are quite sad really... I for one love the adepts and am always willing to raid one when there are enough people around to do so. I like the suggestion of more rec/req levels on high end items, it might help get people more interested in the viable options for low to mid level characters... there really is quite a bit.